Samsung Pay gains support for T-Money and Cashbee transportation payment services in Japan

Samsung has announced that Samsung Pay will now work with T-Money and Cashbee transportation payment methods in Japan. The new service, which is called Samsung Pay Transportation Card Service, lets you use various transportation payment methods in one spot. All you'll need to do to use the service is register the cards within the Samsung Pay application and then begin making payments for their trips.

Customers with pre-registered transportation cards will be granted immediate use by simply activating the import function. Once registered, the Samsung Pay Transportation Card can be used for all methods of transportation, including buses, metro, and taxis without the hassle of using different transportation applications or cards.

The service went live in Japan on December 8, and both T-Money and Cashbee will be offering promotions that include cashback and recharge fee waivers to celebrate the launch.

Totally agree. Title and the content of the article is all incorrect. T-Money and Cashbee are from S.Korea but Japan. Even the Samsung's article that the writer referred to says nothing about Japan but S.Korea
I don't know how Japan just showed up for this article.

You can always use am alternative that you feel is coming from a company you don't mind giving your money to eg: Google or Apple. Either way your money leaves your pocket and goes into someone else's when you go to buy something.

Indeed each company has presented an option which we are free to use or not. Do we really "need" to pay for things with our phones? Our choices of phones partially dictates by our own hands what options, accessories and time lines we need to wait for tech to come our way. Eventually our choice will more than likely enable us to have the most simple and hassle free option possible. Hatin on any company won't make that experience any better.

I hate that Samsung Pay is proprietary, even among other Samsung devices.
I'm also not a fan of (MST) because it's a pacifier for us when we shop at retailers that are too stupid to upgrade their terminals, or train their employees.

Not really sure what about Samsung's payment system there is to hate. Android pay works the way it does because of how they developed it. Apple Pay the same. All three are proprietary. If you can convince all three companies to throw in the towel and combine resources dump patents and licensing you would achieve what Visa, Master card, American Express and others have not achieved in the many years they have existed.

Only Nexus phones work with Project Fi and only Samsung phones have MST and hence only Samsung phones work with Samsung Pay. My bank isn't currently supported by Samsung Pay so I could not currently use it anyway, but I wish that Nexus phones would include MST and Android Pay would support it. Unfortunately this is patented technology owned by Samsung, so I don't expect this to happen any time soon.